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Tourism’s recovery complicated by slow vaccination process, travel restrictions This year could prove to be worse than last, according to two tourism industry experts
Published on Thursday, February 11, 2021
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The slow rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in Mexico and international travel restrictions announced by the United States, Canada and other countries will hinder the tourism recovery, according to three experts, two of whom said that the sector could have a worse year in 2021 than in 2020.
The number of international tourists who came to Mexico last year slumped 46% to 24.3 million as the pandemic and associated restrictions ravaged the global tourism industry. Tourism revenue crashed even harder, plummeting 55% compared to 2019 to just over US $11 billion.